New research suggests the engraving, which shows an elite individual sitting in a boat, may be up to 5,100 years old ...

Archaeology has long been kind to the men (and women) who raised Egypt’s stone marvels. Burial shafts beside the Giza ...

The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

Grace Hertlein’s collection is “a kaleidoscopic snapshot of the early decades of an art historical and technological ...

Researchers in the UK have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived more than ...

Researchers report that AI deciphered the Hammurabi tablet at 98% accuracy, opening the door to translating ancient cuneiform ...

An ancient rock engraving in the Lower Nile Valley may offer a rare glimpse into the origin of Egyptian kings. The art panel ...

Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...

Researchers sequenced ancient Egyptian DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton, revealing genetic links between early Egypt and ...

The fabled city of Atlantis, long dismissed as mere myth, may finally have been discovered—just two miles off the coast of ...

It's a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across ...

Two years ago [2008], a paper was published in Nature describing the function of the oldest known scientific computer, a device built in Greece around 100 BCE. Recovered in 1901 from a shipwreck near ...